New Christie Bridge Scandal Email: Cops Forced to Direct Traffic Instead of Responding to Emergencie

[okaawhatever]

Source: Mother Jones

The massive, four-day September traffic jam orchestrated by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's deputy chief of staff as an act of political retribution caused police in Fort Lee, New Jersey to spend their time directing traffic instead of responding to local emergencies, according to an email released on Friday by state investigators probing the scandal.

On September 9, the first day of the traffic problems, Robert Durando, the Port Authority's general manager of the George Washington Bridge, wrote to Cedrick Fulton, the Port Authority's director of tunnels, bridges and terminals: "Traffic conditions required Ft Lee police to remain out on corners, managing traffic instead of attending to public safety issues."

The email is more evidence of the public safety consequences of September's traffic jams. On Wednesday, a Fort Lee borough councilman told Mother Jones that the traffic slowed the police search for a missing 4-year-old child. NorthJersey.com reported that the traffic doubled EMS response times in two emergencies on September 9. In a third instance, emergency responders "took nearly an hour to arrive at a building where a person was experiencing chest pains."

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Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/emails-christie-forced-police-direct-traffic-instead-responding-emergencies

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While the woman who died only waited a few extra minutes for care, waiting an hour after complaining of chest pains. Didn't the right wing media make a huge deal when this happened in Detroit?

[PeoViejo]

1. Jabba really pissed-off a lot of people

AMF....

[bucolic_frolic]

2. It was a waste of taxpayer resources

man hours, gasoline, personnel, wear and tear on public vehicles

to say nothing of the waste of citizens' gasoline spent idling in the
slow lane

And what do you bet before long that copycat traffic diversions
start popping up like crop circles, when wackos see how easy it
is to place cones and how unaware and out of the loop all the
authorities were

What a nightmare

[okaawhatever]

4. There is already a lawsuit. i wonder what people will be able to claim. Certainly the police dept

that had to pay for overtime. Ditto the bus drivers if that was the case. Each driver for the extra gas and their time? The money could really add up. Also, according to the head of Port Authority Foye, there was an approval process and notification process they didn't follow so they should be held civilly liable if not criminally liable.

One woman who wrote in and complained said her husband was forty minutes late for his first day of work after having been out of a job for a year. She said they were playing God with people's jobs. Their lives, too with that stunt. I think that pretty much sums it up. christie and his flying monkeys were playing God that day.

[SoapBox]

3. The perfect example of RePukeBagger mentality.

They are mean, vicious, hatefully, self-centered creeps...that couldn't give a shit about consequences to everyday Americans.

Seems typical of a bully mentality, that took root after 9/11 with the Bush Regeim. We need to nip this uncivilized behavior in it's ass.